“They were intelligent and sophisticated, with an air of independence, and so casual in their appearance, clothing, and manners that they were almost sloppy ", Collen Moore said of the flapper in the 1920s. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby has been said to reflect the Jazz Age in America in the 1920s. It inhabits and represents a different world that erected a wall between men, women and different religions (Berma 79). Fitzgerald reflects the Jazz Age in The Great Gatsby by telling the reader a story, in a sense, from the end, about a group of people living in New York in the summer of 1922. An article written by Ivana Nakić Lučić described the way in which Fitzgerald's novel reflects the Jazz Age. Nakić Lučić says that Fitzgerald drinking in the 1920s was very common. Author Mitchell Newton-Matza says that when we talk about the Jazz Age, we wouldn't come full circle without talking about Prohibition. In The Great Gatsby, many characters drink alcohol because it was very popular at the time. The Eighteenth Amendment made it illegal for people to drink. It was forbidden, but people found ways to obtain alcohol and were good at hiding it. (Newton-Matzah). It was a fun time to live in America. The people of that time were very. The reader can see the colors of the shirts “apple green and lavender and pale orange” (92). The women in The Great Gatsby wore dresses, which was considered the norm for women in the 1920s. Clemente also said that color was about class and sparkle. The brighter the colors worn, the richer the characters appear. At that time, people wanted to be noticed above all else. To get noticed, people wore sparkly outfits and dressed with a certain air that seemed to the wandering eye that they had it all together..